GoTo Foods (formerly Focus Brands) is an American company that currently owns the

Schlotzsky's Schlotzsky's is an American franchise chain of restaurants, specializing in sandwiches and pizza. The company is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia. Schlotzsky's has over 310 franchised and company-owned locations throughout the United States. Mo ...

, Carvel,

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Auntie Anne's Auntie Anne's is an American franchised chain of pretzel shops founded by Anne F. Beiler and her husband, Jonas, in 1988. Auntie Anne's serves products such as pretzels, dips, and beverages. They also offer Pretzels & More Homemade Baking Mix ...

and Jamba brands. It is located in

Sandy Springs, Georgia Sandy Springs is a city in northern Fulton County, Georgia, United States, and a suburb of Atlanta. The city's population was 108,080 at the 2020 census, making it Georgia's 7th most populous city. It is the site of several corporate headquar ...

, and operates over 6,700 stores globally.

History

Focus Brands began as a holding company for Carvel Corporation. It purchased Cinnabon and the international operations of

Seattle's Best Coffee Seattle's Best Coffee LLC is a subsidiary of Nestlé whose brand is used to sell wholesale coffee, ground coffee, whole-bean coffee, and coffee K-cups. While this brand used to have coffeehouses in the United States, it no longer advertises th ...

from AFC Enterprises in November 2004, combining the three brands under its Focus Brands affiliate. Focus Brands purchased Schlotzsky's from Bobby Cox Companies in 2006, less than two years after Bobby Cox had purchased the brand from bankruptcy. On August 11, 2007, Focus Brands announced that it purchased the

brand from Raving Brands. In October 2010, Focus Brands acquired the mostly mall-based franchiser

, a maker of pretzels. In June 2017, Kat Cole was named Chief Operating Officer. On August 2, 2018, Focus Brands announced that it would acquire Frisco-based smoothie-maker Jamba, formerly known as

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. The acquisition was completed on September 14, 2018. In February 2020, Jim Holthouser was named Chief Executive Officer. In February 2024, the company announced it was rebranding under the new name GoTo Foods.

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